2. Belle & The Vertigo Waves – “New York Letter”
from: Aligned / Drop Out Records / October 6, 2017
[Debut album from Belle & The Vertigo Waves is the sonic brainchild of Belle Loux. She resides in Kansas City, MO, and is slowly attempting world domination.”Aligned” is available on iTunes and all streaming services. The Record Machine release a single of this song on May 18, 2018 as part of their What’s Next: KC Sessions, but we prefer this recorded version.]

3. The Phantastics – “Heartbreaker”
from: Like of the Party – EP / Kenet Creative / August 24, 2018
[Eight member band from Kansas City formed in December 0f 2010 made up of: Kemet the Phantom -lead vocals; Kim “Phirst Lady” Newsome on lead vocals; JJ Cantrell on lead guitar & vocals; Danny Florez on electric bass; Ashley Thompson on drums, Ernest Melton on saxophone; Ryan Davis on Trombone and rap vocals; Austin Quick on keyboards. The Phantastics specialize in genre-blending dance floor activators. In 2015, the music group was crowned “Kansas City’s best party band” by the Kansas City Star. Musicianship and diversity are at the core of their success. Rock, Rap, Dance, Funk, Jazz and Soul are all incorporated into their music. “The band that can do it all”, according to I Heart Local Music, has shared the stage with some of music’s most legendary acts including George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic.]

[The Phantastics play the I Heart Local Music Presents: The Black & White Ball! Saturday, October 27, at 9:00 PM, at The Bottleneck, 7732 New Hampshire St., Lawrence, KS with HighWesthus]

4. Thee Devotion – “Shake It Up”
from: Chapel / Woundup Records / April 7, 2018
[Thee Devotion is a KC based, “chickenshack” & “garage soul” band formed on January 1, 2008 with Davin Watne on guitar, keyboards, harmonica & vocal; Chris Teasely on keyboards, organ, harmonica, flute, trumpet, & vocals; Bruce Eddy on bass and vocals; and Keith Patterson on drums and vocals. Chapel is their second record and was produced by Bill Honan who also played piano and moog. Jesus Negron and Sean Branagan played percussion and David Williams played pedal steel on the record. All songs written by Thee Devotion.]
[Thee Devotion play Funk The Vote, Saturday, November 3, at 10:00 PM at The Ship, 1217 Union Avenue. KCMO (West Bottoms) with DJ Lady J, and DJ Felt Tip. ]

10:15 – Interview with Davin Watne

Artist, musician and educator – Davin Watne is a professor at UMKC where he teaches painting and drawing. He is a practicing artist that exhibits nationally, internationally and locally. Davin also plays guitar, keyboards, harmonica & sings in the KC based 4-piece band, Thee Devotions who released their latest album Chapel on vinyl, on April 7, 2018

Davin Watne joins us to share information about Funk The Vote, Saturday, November 3, at 10:00 PM at The Ship, 1217 Union Avenue. KCMO (West Bottoms). Thee Devotion will perform live along with DJ Lady J, and DJ Felt Tip.

5. Mysterious Clouds – “Circles (Inner Party) featuring Your Friend”
from: My Head is Going Round EP / Haymaker Records / May 25, 2018
[Mysterious Clouds is one of the musical projects of Kansas City, Kansas based post-punk psychedelic musical artists, Dedric Moore and Delaney Moore and special guests. For this track and one other on the new EP the band collaborated with Taryn Blake Miller a Lawrence Kansas based musician and songwriter who records as Your Friend. The Delaney brothers are also founders of the band Monta At Odds. The band writes: “While crawling around in the murk of (their last release) Panic on the Noon Meridian, Delaney fed the band a healthy dose of underground West Coast psych. This helped the band see a feel good light that helped them recover from the heaviness of Panic. These songs are for spring and summer listening and are meant to add a bit of happiness to our daily struggle of keeping up the faith and fighting the good fight.]

10:33 – Interview with Brenton Cook, Dedric Moore & Steve Tulipana

Steve Tulipana, Brenton Cook, and Dedric Moore

Outer Reaches was originally called KC Psych Fest and started in 2012 as a way to bring together outsider musical acts and celebrate the variety of experimental music within Kansas City. While still very much in the psychedelic realm, the Outer Reaches Fest has grown to showcase the ‘out there,’ left-of-center, under-the-radar musical acts performing captivating live music, that is adventurous and mind expanding. The Fest endeavors to emphasize musical acts experimenting and pushing boundaries.

2018 Outer Reaches Fest, is happening this weekend, Friday, October 26, and Saturday, October 27, at recordBar, 1520 Grand Ave, KCMO featuring 16 bands, including six bands from Kansas City, two bands from Lawrence, Kansas, a band from KCK, and bands from Brooklyn New York, and Fort Wayne Indiana, two bands from Chicago Illinois, two bands from Montreal Quebec, and a band from Sydney Australia.

Joining us to share music and information about Outer Reaches 2018 are three guys who together make Outer Reaches happen each year: Brenton Cook, Dedric Moore, and Steve Tulipana.

Dedric Moore launched this festival in 2012. The idea grew out of the music he was creating with his Brother Delaney Moore at the HQ Artspace in KCK. Dedric is a member of the bands Monta At Odds, Mysterious Clouds, and Gemini Revolution. He has also produced recordings for the Philistines and HMPH, and others.

Brenton Cook studied Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology, in Rolla, Missouri, where he also had his own college radio show. Brenton has produced extensive compilations of area music for the Midwest Music Foundation. He formed the Kansas City independent music label, Haymaker Records in January 2014. The label has released multiple full length albums, for Monta At Odds, HMPH!, Be/Non, Jorge Arana Trio, Riala, Mysterious Clouds, Sie Lieben Maschinen, Schwervon!, and others on vinyl, cassette, CD, and 7 “. He has also produced two Haymaker compilation releases, called Fairgrounds. For the last 6 years, Haymaker Records has been a co-sponsor & co-curator of the Outer Reaches Fest.

Steve Tulipana is the co-owner of recordBar. Steve studied video, fine arts & painting at UMKC, where he graduated in 1991. Steve is a founding member of influential KC bands: Season To Risk, Roman Numerals, Thee Water MoccaSins, Sie Lieben Maschinen, and Unknown Pleasures. With Shawn Sherrill, he is co-owner of recordBar and miniBar. Along with Outer Reaches, and a full calendar of shows, Steve helped launch recordBar’s 7″ Single Series, releasing limited edition singles from Victor and Penny and Emmaline Twist on recordBar’s own label: Eat.Hear. Records. Steve Tulipana also performs with The Band That Fell To Earth – in Tribute to David Bowie.

Dedric Moore, Brenton Cook and Steve Tulipana thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley.

We just heard Mysterious Clouds who are part of the big Friday night line up:

We’re talking with Brenton Cook, Dedric Moore, and Steve Tulipana three guys who together make Outer Reaches Fest happen each year.

We hear talk that there will be an interactive Giant Rabbit on stage with Freight Train Rabbit Killer.

This year Outer Reaches is part of Open Spaces KC – Outer Reaches is happy to be an official Expanded Field Partner of Open Spaces KC, a contemporary art experience with visual creations and performances by local, national and international artists transforming the city for 9 weeks.

This year Outer Reaches is Collaborating with Midwest Music Foundation – Outer Reaches 2018 is made possible from the help of Midwest Music Foundation and a grant through the KC Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund.

Friday night, October 26, features three area bands: The Guillotine Choir (KCMO), Lesser Pleasures (Lawrence, KS), and New Obsessions (KCMO), that are so new they are currently in the studios with their music, and have plans to release their debut recordings in the next few months.

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8. Heaven’s Gateway Drugs – “Copper Hill”
from: Rubber Nun / dizzybird Records LLC / September 9, 2016
[Heaven’s Gateway Drugs is a counterculture cult rock band hailing from Fort Wayne, Indiana, a rust belt city best known for its abundance of churches and strip clubs. Despite being born in a location that couldn’t be farther from a psychedelic epicenter, Heaven’s Gateway Drugs creates a unique combination of freakbeat, west coast psych, mod, and eastern drone to create a sound that is just at home today as it was in 1968. This description only addresses part of the total experience that is Heaven’s Gateway Drugs. The group is led by Ben Carr, an enigmatic, psychedelic Pied Piper of sorts who entrances audiences with his movements and urges those in attendance to become one with the band. Remember always, “you are Heaven’s Gateway Drugs.”.]

Outer Reaches 2018 is a partnership between the festival and Midwest Music Foundation and has been made possible through a grant from the Kansas City Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund. Midwest Music Foundation (MMF), a nonprofit organization founded in 2008, provides health care assistance, education, and resources to the Kansas City music community, and receive proceeds from ticket sales from the event. Outer Reaches is happy to be an official Expanded Field Partner of Open Spaces KC, a contemporary art experience with visual creations and performances by local, national and international artists transforming the city for 9 weeks.

The Fest has grown organically, growing too big for FOKL, the arts/performance space in Kansas City, Kan., that hosted the first two KC Psych Fests.

In 2014 the fest moved to recordBar. Outer Reaches feels like a really great fit at recordbar. Steve’s experience booking bands adds to his collaboration with Dedric and Brenton in organizing the line up. recordBar, 1520 Grand, in the Crossroads

12. J Fernandez – “Unwind”
from: Occasional Din / Joyful Noise Recordings / November 9, 2018
[First single from Chicago Illinois based musician J Fernandez started as the eponymous home recording project of Arkansas born Justin Fernandez, who came to Chicago in 2008 to work for map company Rand McNally. After three EPs, his 2015 debut LP ‘Many Levels of Laughter’ attracted high praise from the music press – including 8/10s from UNCUT and NME, plus end of year nods from Under The Radar and Brooklyn Vegan (who called it “one of 2015’s most underrated albums”). That year also saw him share the stage with the likes of Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Alvvays, Mitski, and Ezra Furman.s,

13. Sound of Ceres –”Humoria”
from: The Twin / Joyful Noise Recordings / October 6, 2017
[.Karen and Ryan Hover, having completed a Perfect Triumvirate of Candy Claws albums, formed Sound of Ceres in 2014 as a duo in collaboration with members of the Apples in Stereo and the Drums. While Candy Claws explored terrestrial realms such as the ocean, the forest, and the Mesozoic, Sound of Ceres expands to contemplate all of space and time, and the human place within it.]

[Sound of Ceres play Outer Reaches Fest, at recordBar, Sat, October 27.]

The music festival Outer Reaches, in its seventh year, emphasizes musical acts experimenting and pushing boundaries. The fest aims to showcase the ‘out there,’ left-of-center, under-the-radar musical acts performing captivating live music. The shows are 18+ and feature acts from a variety of musical genres with accompanying video projection.

This year Outer Reaches is Collaborating with Midwest Music Foundation – Outer Reaches 2018 is made possible from the help of Midwest Music Foundation and a grant through the KC Neighborhood Tourist Development Fund.

15. Kee Avil – “Sponge”
from: Kee Avil – EP / Black Bough Records / March 15, 2018
[Kee Avil is a solo song project based in Montreal, QC. It combines guitar, voice and electronics into song forms that stagger between structure and improvisation. Kee Avil evolved from playing the guitar with broken cymbals and drumsticks into creating strange beats glued together by samples of screws dropped into crystal bowls. All music by Kee Avil. Mixing by Zach Scholes. Mastering: Sponge and by Harris Newman, and Zach Schole.]

The music festival Outer Reaches, in its seventh year, emphasizes musical acts experimenting and pushing boundaries. The fest aims to showcase the ‘out there,’ left-of-center, under-the-radar musical acts performing captivating live music. The shows are 18+ and feature acts from a variety of musical genres with accompanying video projection.

The music festival Outer Reaches, in its seventh year, emphasizes musical acts experimenting and pushing boundaries. The fest aims to showcase the ‘out there,’ left-of-center, under-the-radar musical acts performing captivating live music. The shows are 18+ and feature acts from a variety of musical genres with accompanying video projection.

At 10:15 Davin Watne of Thee Devotion joins us to share information about Funk The Vote, Saturday, November 3, at 10:00 PM at The Ship, 1217 Union Avenue. KCMO (West Bottoms). Thee Devotion will perform live along with DJ Lady J, and DJ Felt Tip. Plus, political action organizations including: WOLF -PAC Missouri, New Approach, and 350KC will be there to advocate for candidates and issues they support. GET OUT AND VOTE.

Outer Reaches (formerly KC Psych Fest) started in 2012 as a way to bring together outsider musical acts and celebrate the variety of experimental music within Kansas City. The fest emphasizes musical acts experimenting and pushing boundaries. The fest aims to showcase the ‘out there,’ left-of-center, under-the-radar musical acts performing captivating live music. The shows are 18+ and feature acts from a variety of musical genres with accompanying video projection. The festival aims to be genre-spanning and showcase young and established local, national, and international acts. This marks the seventh anniversary of the festival. More info at: http://www.outerreachesfest.com